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Just Four Quid Campaign – Save a lot, give a little

A new campaign is to be launched helping people with money saving tips and asking them to donate a little of what they save to biomedical research into ME/CFS.

The Just Four Quid site will start giving weekly tips from May 12th (International ME/CFS Awareness Day) on how to save money in these recessionary times. In return for making savings they are suggesting a small donation each week for a year.

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The woman behind the blog of money saving tips and encouraging this new approach to fundraising, says there’s no rules about how much or how little money we can contribute.

“we save money for ourselves and others, and we donate a part of that saving; we sell unwanted things to make money for ourselves and others and donate a part of what we’ve made; or we do something for other people and they make a donation in return. Because everyone is winning, we can do something every week, not just once a year.

I’m very conscious that we will vary enormously in what we can do and I have designed as many as possible of the weekly projects to be doable even by those with very little energy.”

The aim is to raise one million pounds in the next year and the campaign and sees ME Research UK and the ME Association joining forces to raise money for research into this devasting illness.

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“If all 250,000 people in the UK with ME/CFS gave just £4 to the appeal we’d reach the £1,000,000 target in next to no time. But nothing is ever that simple”, said Tony Britton, publicity manager at the ME Association.

“So we’ve designed this blog to help people save money on everything from their utility bills to their haircuts in the hope that, once they’ve saved some money, they’ll give some of it back.”

“Of course, we’ll always welcome straightforward donations. People visiting the blog can choose to support either charity, or both”.